KARACHI: An anti-encroachment operation threatening to raze the historic Urdu Bazaar in Karachi was postponed on Wednesday amidst protests by vendors and merchants. Official sources told Dawn that the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation — which had launched an anti-encroachment drive late last year following the orders of the Supreme Court against illegal structures on drains, pavements and state land — formed …

KARACHI: The Pakis­tan Medical Association (PMA) on Wednesday said it would not accept the “undemocratic” ordinance promulgatedby the president of Pakistan allowing the prime minister, chief ministers, and armed forces to nominate their members to run the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), the premier body that regulated medical affairs in the country. “It is entirely undemocratic, unconstitutional and would not …

KARACHI: As efforts by Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman to unite the opposition parties mainly ‘outside the parliament’ have yet to pay the dividends, National Party president Senator Hasil Khan Bizenjo won the approval of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership to pursue the course for the same objective on Wednesday. Sources privy to the development and a …

ISLAMABAD: The Fina­ncial Action Task Force (FATF) is reported to have expressed a degree of satisfaction over Pakistan’s efforts and action plan to combat money laundering and terror financing under international obligations and indicated certain areas to do more before May this year to get out of the grey list. A high-level delegation led by Finance Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan …

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MPA Khurrum Sher Zaman on Thursday said that he plans on pursuing the concealment of assets case against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in the Supreme Court as he withdrew his petition filed in the Elec­tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP). On December 21, Zaman, in his petition, had accused Zardari of owning an apartment in Belaire …

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WEST WYOMING, Pennsylvania (KTRK) — A woman was arrested in West Wyoming, Pennsylvania, for breaking into a police department because she was allegedly looking for an officer she had been harrassing. Surveillance video from outside the police building shows Ashley Keister banging on the door early on Monday. When she couldn’t break through, she smashed her way in using a …

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Philadelphia police say they had to discharge their weapons after the same two pit bulls that killed a dog two weeks ago attacked again. Around 7:20 p.m. Monday police responded to a report of two dogs attacking a woman and her dog. Two officers arrived at the scene and shot at the dogs, striking them, in an effort to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As Jazmine Barnes was laid to rest Tuesday, a second suspect was charged with her murder. Larry Woodruffe, 24, now faces a capital murder charge along with Eric Black Jr., 20, who was charged over the weekend Investigators say Woodruffe fired eight shots into Jazmine’s mother’s car early on Sunday, Dec. 30, killing the 7-year-old and injuring her …

The homeless man at the center of a local GoFundMe scam that made national headlines is now a wanted man. A judge issued an arrest warrant for John Bobbitt after he was a no-show at a required court appearance Tuesday in Burlington County. The Philadelphia veteran was previously charged for the charity scam. His story went viral when he reportedly …